Treasure The Gifts of The Holy Spirit

Understanding gives us a swift, easy, intuitive grasp of the meaning of the truths God has revealed to us. Wisdom helps us to judge Divine things. Counsel helps us to bring all this knowledge to bear upon the decisions we must make in our particular actions. Fortitude perfects our appetite by strengthening it divinely against the fear of danger. Knowledge enables us to judge quickly the created things in the world in their relation to God. Piety perfects the virtue of justice in the will by moving us to do good to all men out of reverence for God. Fear of the Lord perfects our appetite against the inordinate lust for pleasures. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to us to produce divine-human acts in us. God produces these acts in us but not without us. We are moved to action by the Holy Spirit, it is still we who move. The actions are ours. They flow forth from our reason and appetite.

Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Martin J. Healy, S.T.D.

[This is just one of the 1200 powerful quotations you will find in my award-winning book, Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct.]

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